Canada's Rogers says gives more data control to customers

TORONTO Oct 6 Rogers Communications Inc
will give customers the ability to shut off family
members or friends using excessive mobile data in shared data
plans, the Canadian communications company said on Thursday.

Guy Laurence said the goal was to give customers greater
control over their bills and hopefully reduce the 1.5 million
calls the company's call centers receive each year about data
usage and pricing.

"If you take away the anxiety, they will use it more," he
told reporters, likening the significance of the move to the
company's earlier effort to help users manage international
roaming costs, which had reduced complaints by 90 percent.

The upgrade to its mobile phone account management app
allows for alerts to be set when individuals hit certain levels.
The customer can then do nothing, allocate more data from
another family member, or buy additional data for that month or
upgrade the Share Everything plan.

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